Paradigm Shift in Technologies and Innovation Systems

Description

This book provides some new ideas on the conceptualization of a shift in technological paradigm, and it explores in depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems. It examines text-mining software and analyzes patent data as well as academic and business journals to illustrate the paradigm shift of newly emerging technologies, such as the all-solid-state battery and automatic driving for electric vehicles, and surgical robots. It also explores the critical role of emerging software technologies by examining US, EU, and Japanese patent statistics. Highlighting the paradigm shift of technologies since the 1990s and the geographical dispersion of innovative capabilities, it identifies essential trends toward new innovation systems as well as the concentration and dispersion of national and corporate R&D capabilities that have taken place as a result. In this new paradigm, the competitiveness of a company is decisively determined by other innovations in systems and management. Since the 1990s, when a network economy began to be established and technological know-how came to be easily transferred across borders, the changing structure of technological activities has required organizations with traditional integral and closed architecture models to move toward open innovation or modular architectures. These changes involve wider technological areas and cognitive diversity among international inter-firm and intra-firm R&D networks. This book is highly recommended not only to academicians but also to business people seeking an in-depth and up-to-date overview of the paradigm shift of technologies and new innovation systems. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv The Philosophy of Paradigm Change in the History of Social Evolution (John Cantwell)....Pages 1-15 Paradigm Changes in Technological Knowledge Connections in Urban Innovation Systems (Salma Zaman)....Pages 17-55 World-Wide Dispersion of Research and Development (R&D) Capabilities (Takabumi Hayashi, Atsuho Nakayama)....Pages 57-71 International Standardization of the New Technology Paradigm: A Strategy for Royalty-Free Intellectual Property (Yasuro Uchida)....Pages 73-103 New Roles for Japanese Companies at the Knowledge-Based Economy (Fumio Komoda)....Pages 105-139 Paradigm Shifts in the TFT-LCD Industry and Japan’s Competitive Position in East Asia (Kazuhiro Asakawa)....Pages 141-162 Business-University Collaboration in a Developing Country in the Industry 4.0 Era—The Case of Hungary (Annamaria Inzelt)....Pages 163-196 Text Mining Method for Building New Business Strategies (Fumio Komoda, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Ken Masamune)....Pages 197-238 Paradigm Change in the History of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Sarah Edris)....Pages 239-263 Knowledge Transfer and Creation Systems: Perspectives on Corporate Socialization Mechanisms and Human Resource Management (Tamiko Kasahara)....Pages 265-293 Redefining the Internationalization of R&D Activities: How Far Have the Firms’ R&D Members of US and Japanese Companies Been Diversified? (Takabumi Hayashi)....Pages 295-314 Correction to: Knowledge Transfer and Creation Systems: Perspectives on Corporate Socialization Mechanisms and Human Resource Management (Tamiko Kasahara)....Pages C1-C1